Edward Bassenet

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Edward Bassenet D.D. was a Welsh Anglican Dean. [1]

Culme was born in Wales and appointed a Privy Counsellor by Henry VIII. [2] He was Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin [3] from 1537 until 1547. He died before the restoration of the cathedral. [4]

Notes

  1. "The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick Near Dublin, from it Foundation in 1190, to the Year 1819: Comprising a Topographical Account of the Lands and Parishes Appropriated to the Community of the Cathedral, and to Its Members, and Biographical Memoirs of Its Deans" Mason, W.M. p147:Dublin, W.Folds, 1820
  2. "The Dublin Review, Volume 16" Wiseman, N.P. p204: London, C.Diolman, 1844
  3. Cathedral web-site
  4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p95 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878


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